December 07, 2011

Iowa, New Mexico, Virginia Question Suggestions

New Mexico and Virginia won our vote on where to poll this week.

We'll obviously look at the standard Presidential stuff and the Senate races in both states. In New Mexico we'll do Heinrich/Balderas v. Sanchez/Wilson and in Virginia we'll look at Kaine v. Allen/Radtke.

In Virginia we'll do the Governor's race: Cuccinelli/Bolling v. McAuliffe/Perriello? I'm open to other ideas too.

Other question suggestions for New Mexico and Virginia?

In Iowa we'll do the 2nd of our 5 weekly tracking polls leading up to the caucus...if you didn't see it here's our poll from this week. Any other questions you think we should be asking besides that stuff?

Thanks as always for the suggestions. Just a programming note: because of the potential for the Republican debate in Iowa to cause some change in the race, we're not going to go in the field until Sunday this weekend. The Iowa poll will come out on Tuesday night instead of the previously scheduled Monday.

Comments

You should do a poll on the public's disgust with New Mexico's Public Regulation Commission (PRC). One was recently kicked off (he agreed to resign as part of his plea deal) due to multiple felonies including misuse of campaign money, fraud (misuse of state gas card), etc (8 felony counts I think). Just last year another commissioner was removed for a felony assault conviction.

Today was the first debate between Tim Kaine and George Allen for an election that's just under a year away. The debate focused on the expected issues, like health care, Obama, the deficit, etc., but one question was about proposals to allow uranium mining in Virginia. Is this issue even on the radar screen for Virginia voters? How do they feel about it?

IOWA/NEW MEXICO/VIRGINIA Do you support giving Children of Illegal Immigrant's who not fault of their own where brought to this country Illegal a path to Citizenship by going to College or Serving the Military? (NO Should be Deported/ YES They should be given a path to Citizenship)

New Mexico: sports team favorites, broken down by area code or region.

New Mexico: religious following (Catholic, Protestant, none of the above), and if possible, number of times per month for attending church. Would be interesting to see how devotion corresponds to race (namely, Latino) and views on gay marriage.

Virginia: religious following (same as above, but including Judaism). Are Jews remaining faithful to Obama and Democrats?

I'd be curious to see in New Mexico how Bill Richardson's approval ratings are doing. His numbers were very low as he left office last year as governor and he's reportedly being investigated by a grand jury ... have those numbers gotten even lower? Also, are Gov. Susana Martinez's numbers still holding up?

You could ask of likely Iowa caucus goers, "Do you believe Iowa is more worthy to go first than other states in the union?" This would be interesting because it may reveal whether even Iowans think their continual privilege is silly, or whether they have adopted an air of superiority on the other hand, which in turn would make them look silly.

I would like to see figures on voter enthusiasm in both states. Your weekly (DKos) polling is showing low enthusiasm among seniors, moderates, and independents nationally. Since Gingrich relies heavily on the senior vote, this could impact his electability even more than the match-ups indicate.

Of course, it's still early. But other demographic groups are showing strong enthusiasm already.

All states: congressional generic, gay marriage and maybe gay adoption as well (Virginia has had a recent debate about it with it staying largely illegal there to my understanding)

Iowa:

- In deeper reference to gay marriage, do they want to amend the constitution to overturn it?
- Do they support their independent redistricting commission?

New Mexico:

- A bit of a profile on Latinos in this state which is plurality Hispanic (the only in the nation at this stage) as to their political leanings and whether they are conservative/moderate/liberal. This is very interesting, especially considering that they just elected a Latina GOP governor.
- Redistricting reform - it's highly controversial here - just like everywhere else.

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